Bruce Pearl has big plans the second his NCAA suspension expires

Bruce Pearl’s show-cause suspension is ending on Saturday so he’s celebrating doing the thing that anyone who has followed Pearl’s career would expect him to do: Talk to a recruit.

According to CBS Sports, the new Auburn coach is greeting a recruit named Horace Spencer in his office at 12:01 on Saturday — the day the show-cause expires.

“I’m looking forward to finally talking to him,” Spencer told CBSSports.com on Friday. “And I want to hear what he has to say about my recruitment, too.”

Pearl was hired by Auburn earlier this year, but the school declined to appeal the show-cause. “I felt strongly that not appealing the show-cause order was the right thing to do, and coach Pearl wholeheartedly agreed we should not contest it,” Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs said in a statement released to USA TODAY Sports and other outlets in April. “When I decided to hire coach Pearl, I was well aware of these restrictions and their ramifications. Coach Pearl and I both respect the process and we will fully honor the show-cause until it expires in August.”

Pearl was given a three-year show-cause after he lied to NCAA investigators during an investigation while he was the coach at the University of Tennessee. He was fired from the Vols in 2011 and spent time as an analyst at ESPN before being hired at Auburn this year.

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